Favorites prevail in NYSS divisions

Form held in all three divisions of Yonkers Raceway's $181,411 New York Sire Stakes Joe Goldstein Trot for 2-year-old fillies Thursday night.

 

Show Your Lindys (Stephane Bouchard) showed some moxie in the $60,837 second division, setting soft fractions before holding off a two-pronged  challenge. She was confronted inside by Connie (Mike Simons) and outside by Windemerealfiredup (Jeff Gregory) in the lane. That hardly seemed fair, but the 2-5  choice was up to it.

 

She defeated Connie by 1 3/4 lengths in 2:02.3. Show Your Lindys, a Dream Vacation miss co-owned by Kjell Magne Andersen and Troy Mollohan and trained by Torgeir Hagmann, returned $2.90 for her third win in five freshman starts.

 

"I didn't have to ask her for a lot of speed early, but she was good when she had to be," Bouchard said.

 

The final $60,837 event saw 1-5 choice Madam Hooch enhance her resume. The daughter of Credit Winner two-moved to the lead for Simons, then toyed with Secret Credit (Boone Mattison), the only other filly in the same area code. Madam Hooch won by a couple of lengths in 2:01.4. It was some 11 lengths  back to third and Somersault (Ray Schnittker).

 

For Madam Hooch, trained by Fred Grant for owner Russell Williams, she returned $2.40 for her fifth win (fourth consecutive) along with three thirds in  eight '09 tries. Her summertime stash now exceeds $126,000.

 

"She's done everything I've asked of her," Simons said. "They told me she was good from day one, and I believe it. Both this one and (Yonkers' divisional track record-holder Happy Ticket, also driven by Simons) are on the smallish side, and they get around  these New York tracks very well."

 

Tuesdays Wwith Mom, a homebred daughter of Credit Winner owned and trained by Peter Arrigenna and driven by Gregory, won the $59,737 first (non-wagering) event in 2:00.2. It was her fifth win in six seasonal starts with earnings approaching $112,000. (Yonkers)